Sample design optimisation techniques and associated software

This QUICS project deliverable 3.1:
1. Gives an overview of statistical methods for spatial sampling design optimisation, with a focus on applications in the environmental sciences, including a brief review of key recent publications.
2. Presents a specific application to sampling design optimisation of rain gauge locations for rainfall mapping in space and time, as developed within the QUICS project.
3. Provides a flowchart and computer code of an implementation of the rain gauge location optimisation algorithm in the R software for statistical computing.